Evolution Honors Biology

Which fossil is the oldest

Type of speciation that happens in the same area, but fills different niches

Lion mates with a tiger to produce a liger

small number of individuals colonize a new area

Hutton & Lyell's theory that layers of rock formed over millions of years

Over time, certain traits will be passed on to the majority of individuals in the population

Boa constrictors have tiny pelvic girdles and leg bones within their bodies

The least related to humans

Male fireflies flash a specific pattern to attract a mate

The sum of all the genes in a population

Certain traits that give individuals an advantage over others within the population

Ability to survive and reproduce offspring, and offspring need to pass on traits as well

acts on the traits that help animals acquire mates

"Maggots from Meat" is an example of 

Type of speciation that is brought on by geographic isolation followed by genetic divergence

Cuvier's theory that all current species survived major events throughout earth's history

appendages with similar bone structures can be used for flying, swimming, running, or grasping

Darwin and ________ both developed and proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection.

Which evolved first; Amphibian....Reptile...Mammal....Fish

2 populations are isolated by a river

Individual members of a population differ from one another in many respects

When unrelated organisms living under similar environmental demands evolve similar structures

Which is not random

In a population, one extreme is selected against...selection pattern?

Which would not be true of a population in Hardy-Weinberg equillibrium

Genetic drift has this effect on variation

In a population, both extremes are selected for, average selected against...selection pattern?

Have more offspring than will survive

movement of alleles into and out of a population

which animal is most closely related to humans

fertilization will not take place

What can evolve

Genetic drift has a greater effect on a ....

What is the allele frequency for the white allele

In a population, both extremes are selected against....selection pattern?

Endosymbiotic hypothesis explains the evolution of

One species separates into different species

natural catastrophe drastically reduces the gene pool

Different populations of frogs mate during different seasons

Lamarck's theory on how traits were passed down